Sabre helps make the journey as special as SOUTHLAKE, Texas, May 28, 2008 - Vatican-based travel ORP, which organises pilgrimages and holy tour packages around Sabre becomes ORP's preferred global distribution systems “Our goal is to provide pilgrims all over the world with full access Sabre Travel Network President Tom Klein said: “We feel “The launch of josp.com is an exciting opportunity, and we're ORP's packages are now available online via www.josp.com. About Sabre Travel Network Key brands of Sabre Travel Network include GetThere, for Sabre Holdings connects people with the world's greatest travel
the visit with expanded opportunities to book travel through the
Vatican travel organization and new online website
organization, Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi (ORP) has chosen Sabre, the
world's largest travel distribution provider, to help create new
opportunities for travellers to visit Rome and other holy destinations
relevant to their faith.
Europe, is now expanding its presence online with the newly launched
‘Journeys of the Spirit' travel portal www.josp.com. Launched in March,
the portal enables travellers from all over the world to book flights
and tour packages to religious sites.
(GDS) provider through this multi-year partnership, supplying a range
of advanced travel solutions to facilitate the shopping and booking of
travel through the new josp.com website:
Travelocity.com, to provide travellers with combined air and ground
packages. Making Travelocity's air content available on josp.com (known
as white labelling) makes travel to the Vatican City and other
religious sites around Europe instantly available for pilgrims all over
the world and accelerates ORP'S mission to make its packages more
globally available
MySabre, for all its shopping and booking requirements with full access
to all of Sabre's GDS content including more than 400 airlines, more
than 80,000 hotels and 26 car rental companies
Europe local content platform, providing Sabre Connected agents in
Italy, Greece and Spain with fully integrated access to ORP content
through MySabre.
to our product portfolio in a simplified and streamlined way. We chose
Sabre as our partner because they are the only company to offer a truly
unique blend of technology solutions, distribution power and expertise
to enable us to achieve our goals,” said Father Caesar Atuire, CEO of
Opera Romana Pellegrinaggi.
privileged and honored that ORP has selected Sabre to help them make
their travel packages more widely available to Catholics and pilgrims
around the world. They told us they wanted to enhance awareness and
reach of their travel packages, and that's exactly what we're providing
through our unique combination of travel agency services and online
travel website, Travelocity.com. I'm pleased we've made this happen in
a way that meets ORP's needs and provides even more opportunities for
devotees to use the Church's own travel services.
delighted to be facilitating the gift of travel to some of the most
sacred and religious destinations on Earth,” said Klein.
Sabre Travel Network, a Sabre Holdings company, provides the most
comprehensive end-to-end solutions for corporate and leisure travel.
The Sabre GDS is the foundation for these solutions, providing a
ready-built efficient marketplace that connects travel suppliers,
including hundreds of airlines and thousands of hotels, with more than
55,000 travel agency locations. Currently, Sabre collectively handles
over 70 percent of the BTN 100 bookings.
corporate travel reservation technology; Nexion, a host agency; SynXis,
for hotel reservation management, distribution and technology services;
E-site marketing, specializing in online business solutions exclusively
for the hospitality industry TRAMS, mid- and back-office solutions and
marketing services for travel agencies; and TRAMS Marketing Alliance
(TMA), a marketing promotions services for leisure travel agencies.
Sabre Travel Network also markets TripTailor Vacations, a travel
wholesaler providing dynamic packaging for the travel agency
marketplace.
possibilities by retailing travel products and providing distribution
and technology solutions for the travel industry. More information
about Sabre Holdings is available at http://www.sabre-holdings.com.
